o t: playing dvd??

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
To play the latest Real audio files you have to install the win32 .dll real 
codecs.  I think that you can also use the native Linux codecs from the 
official Real Player 10 for Linux.
You have to look at your configuration options when you compile MPlayer and 
see how to enable Real support.
I think that MPlayer also has Real media support built-in, but only for the 
older format versions.
In my system, my MPlayer plays all of the Real Media files I have, but they 
are not the latest Real formats.
If you want better Real support you might want to use the official Real 
Player 10 from Real Networks.  I believe there is an alternative text-based 
frontend for it, but I have never used it.

David B.
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From: "hank" <hank at hanksmith.net>
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Subject: Re: o t: playing dvd??


> real audio files?
> can it play streaming files? if so where do you get real audio plugin?
> last time I used this thingy it didn't support real audio
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:41 PM
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>
>> Hi Paul:
>> For DVD playback you want to use MPlayer for sure.
>> MPlayer is an incredible media player and it can playback any media 
>> format
> you throw at it.  Also, it has very nice
>> keyboard commands like space-bar for play, left-errow and right-arrow for
> fw and rw etc.  It is one of the most blind
>> friendly and user friendly program out there.
>> It also plays VCD, SVCD, OGG, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WMV, Real, QuickTime, and
> many many more.
>>
>> You can get great MPlayer RPMS from http://www.freshrpms.net.  They have 
>> a
> good "yum" repo for FC3.  If you configure
>> your yum.conf file properly, you will be able to do: "yum install 
>> mplayer"
> and it will automaticly get it and its
>> dependencies from the net.  However, I always compile my MPlayer, because
> it is much much faster if you compile it your
>> self.
>>
>> David B.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:00:06PM -0700, Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 
>> 2
> 2 3 1 1) wrote:
>> > Hi all.  In our new homebox we have a dvd.  Just wondering what to use
> to
>> > play them from the fc3 shell.  Also, I hear that things like d v s and
>> > whatever would be bundled in releases of films and whatever.  I gather
> one
>> > could then choose the description if they wanted it or watch the film 
>> > by
>> > default without??  Can one do that with a software player??  I gather
>> > there would be something to play it with like cdp for audio??  Thanks
>> > much.
>> >
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